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A FATHER'S PLACE

Sister Dressed Me Funny

Rambling Round 

 

 

Italian American Heritage

Essays & Links

 by Anthony Buccino


"If only this kitchen could talk!" Aunt Connie said when I visited her in April. She was 83 and still living in the same house where she was born.

From: Who Is Brother, Uncle Bim?


Andrew Pagliaro died April 22, last week. He was 93 years old. I never got to talk to him before he died. I have a couple of letters he sent me a couple of years ago.

From: At Spatola's Home for Funerals


Harry was four years old when his dad died in a coal mine cave-in in Wilkes Barre, Pa. Harry was the youngest of eight children, the oldest was barely a teenager. That was February 1929.

From: Coal Miner's Kids' Christmas


In the Florida room of Uncle Bim's home in Florida, I finally asked him how he came to be called "Bim." After all, my research had shown that his real name was Donato which he had Americanized to Daniel. But everybody called him "Uncle Bim" for 80 years. Why?

From: Great Gramps Was A Pumpkin


A Debt To Honor

Ordinary folks risked all saving strangers
'We did what we knew needed to be done'

 The true story of how nearly 40,000 Jews in Italy were saved from Nazi annihilation during World War II


Buccino wins UNICO National Americanism award


Books

A Father's Place - An Eclectic Collection - Early writings about family life, day trips, Brookdale Soda, too much coffee, pets, friendships and more!

AMERICAN BOY: Pushing Sixty, working class verse about life and growing up in New Jersey.

Sister Dressed Me Funny - Tales about - of all things - a naked statue and the school tie, Italian American family roots and that dress his sister made him wear.

Rambling Round - Inside and Outside at the Same Time - Essays written from the heart and the hearth about family, life and growing up in north Jersey.

VOICES ON THE BUS - Working class verse and tales, musings and random observations about commuting in Northern New Jersey.

ONE MORNING IN JERSEY CITY - Poems written along the Hudson River Walkway, Grundy Pier, the Goldman Sachs can of Coke, and the Colgate clock in Jersey City, N.J.

Belleville Sons Honor Roll - Remembering the Men Who Paid for Our Freedom - 174-page second edition includes more information on the American Revolution, War of 1812, Civil War, WWI, WWW II, Korea, Vietnam and peacetime casualties.

Nutley Sons Honor Roll - Remembering the Men Who Paid for Our Freedom, information about the more than 130 Nutley sons who died while in service to our country. Fourth edition.

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Book reviews written by Anthony Buccino


Recommended reading   Italian American and other topics

Italian American Writers' Association


Sgt. John Basilone Home Page

Italian American hero deserves recognition


Heritage Preservation Associates


Italian American Links

Italian American One Voice Coalition

Genealogy Link

Italian American Network A channel for all things Italian

Italy With Us an ezine for lovers of Italy.

Italian American Press

 Tour Italy Access Italy provides private and exclusive tours throughout Italy.

Virtual Italia -sharing Italian culture with the world

Italian blog for Italophiles

ItaliAmerica

Italia Mia

Comunes of Italy

Italian Translation Service


Italian American book list!


BOOKS

Maria Mazziotti Gillan

Italian Women In Black Dresses

Things My Mother Told Me

All That Lies Between Us

Taking Back My Name

Maria Mazziotti Gillan Greatest Hits 1972-2002

Maria Mazziotti Gillan: Essays on Her Works, a book edited by Sean Thomas Dougherty,

Italian American Writers On New Jersey

Identity Lessons: Contemporary Writing About Learning to Be American

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Tom Perrotta

Little Children

Election

The Wishbones

Joe College

Bad Haircut: Stories of the Seventies

Buccino: On Perrotta

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Salvatore Buttaci

A Family of Sicilians: Stories and Poems

Boy On A Swing and Other Poems

Promising the Moon - poems by Salvatore Amico M. Buttaci

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Una Storia Segreta - Lawrence DiStasi

Finding Italian Roots by John Philip Colletta

They Came In Ships by John P. Colletta

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In The Garden of Papa Santuzzu by Tony Ardizzone

Taking It Home - Stories from the Neighborhood by Tony Ardizzone

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Don't Tell Mama Regina Barreca

Andiamo, Weasel! - Rose Marie Grant

Moustache Pete Is Dead! - Fred L. Gardaphe

Dances with Luigi - Paul Paolicelli

Beyond The Godfather - Italian American Writers on the Real Italian American Experience editors: A. Kenneth Ciongoli and Jay Parini

La Storia, Five Centuries of the Italian-American Experience
by Jerre Mangione & Ben Morreale

The Humble and the Heroic Wartime Italian Americans by Salvatore LaGumina

Memoirs of Lt. Camillo Viglino, Italian Air Force 1915-1916

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Italian Americans in World War II  - Peter L. Belmonte

Blood of My Blood - Richard Gambino

Mount Allegro - Jerry Mangione

Growing Up Italian In God's Country - Patricia Costa Viglucci

Heritage Italian-American Style - Leon J. Radomile

The Garlic in the Melting Pot - Lewis M. Elia

ROSA The Life of an Italian Immigrant by Marie Hall Ets

Unto The Sons - Gay Talese

Ciao, America - Beppe Severgnini

Italian Stories - stories by Joseph Papaleo

Were You Always an Italian? by Maria Laurino

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Sometimes I Dream In Italian - Rita Ciresi

The Last Cannoli - Camille Cusumano

Recipes My Nonna Taught Me - by Francena

Growing Up Italian by Linda Brandi Cateura

Under The Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes

NEWARK'S Little Italy - The Vanished First Ward - Michael Immerso

The Big Hunger by John Fante

The Fortunate Pilgrim by Mario Puzo

The Last Cannoli - Camille Cusumano

The Altar Boy Chronicles by Tony Pasquarello

With Heart and Soul - Calgary's Italian Community by Antonella Fanella

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AMERICAN BOY: Pushing Sixty, working class verse about life and growing up in New Jersey.


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